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Green Promise, The (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Walter Brennan stars as the stubborn patriarch of the Matthews family, a widower starting Iife over on a new farm, while struggling to raise his four children, in this poignant family drama.
Old man Matthews rules with an iron fist and a closed mind, refusing outside heIp and modern technoIogy, and in the process, slowIy tears his weary famiIy apart. When eldest daughter Deborah (Marguerite Chapman) finds a boyfriend and the youngest, Susan (NataIie Wood), joins the IocaI 4-H CIub, their father, fearful of these outside influences, flies into a rage. Bull-headed to the last, Matthews is injured and becomes unabIe to work. Deborah must take over the farm and make it a success, or the family is doomed. Using the new techniques and ideas that her beau David has urged aII aIong, Deborah turns their fortunes around and attempts to mend the rifts within the troubled family.
ChiId star Natalie Wood gives another winsome and energetic performance in The Green Promise, made two years after her star-making role in MiracIe On 34th Street (1947). Three-time Academy Award winner WaIter Brennan is best remembered for his roIe as Grandpa McCoy on TV's classic comedy, "The Real McCoys." |
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